Abstract
In November 2005, the State Court Administrator's Office (SCAO) contracted with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to assess the qualification and summoning procedures used by the Third Circuit Court (Wayne County) to identify procedural and operational factors that might contribute to the disparity in minority populations in its jury pool and to make recommendations to improve the representation of those minorities. To conduct this assessment, the NCSC collected data about every stage of the jury management process in 2004 and 2005.
In this report, the NCSC makes eight recommendations to the Third Circuit to address the procedural and operational areas most closely associated with under-representation of minorities in the jury pool. These recommendations are characterized as immediate/short-term, midterm, and long-term implementation goals.
This abstract has been taken from the authors' introduction.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2006
Publication Information
National Center for State Courts (2006)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula, "Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan Jury System Assessment" (2006). Faculty Publications. 2406.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2406